Salted Lemons

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Summary: This was an exciting book!
Review: I'd like to tell you two reasons why I like this book. First it was exciting but realistic. It had girls just like me. The setting was during World War II and I like learning about this war. I enjoyed this book. I would recomend this book to 4th and 5th graders.

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Summary: Salted Lemons....
Review: Salted Lemons is a very cool book. Darby is a young girl from Washington D.C. who moves to Atlanta, Georgia during the beginning of World War 2. One of the first friends she made there was Yoko, the girl across the street. Yoko introduces Darby to eating lemons with salt, the big sycamore tree in the back yard, and the basket swing where they sit reading the Bible. When summer ends, Darby has to go to school and finds it strange when her classmates don't pay any attention to planes flying overhead and they don't even act as if a war is going on! In Washington D.C., they had air raid drills every month, collected tin cans and string, and bought savings stamps at the end of the week. Here, they only pray at church for the lost soldiers. Darby really wants to be accepted by the other children, who consider her a "Yankee".

After a few days of school, the other people in her class notice her hanging out with Yoko and start to call her names until her father explained that Yoko was Japanese. Darby starts to become frightened of Yoko and her family and starts making exuses not to go play with her. Yoko finally explains that they are not spies, or the ememy. Yoko was born in Atlanta but her heritage is Japanese. They become fast friends again until the government decides to make all the Japanese move away.
The new girl who lives in the Yoko's house is convinced that the world is going to end and invites Darby to wait for it with her.

This book is so fun to read and some people can relate to the feelings of Darby's older sister, Kyla, who misses her friends
in D.C. I hope that anyone who reads it will like it as much as I did. My favorite part is the roller coaster in her neighbor's yard.